Open-minded #music lover and something of a #vinyl collector (buy to play/enjoy, not invest)
Frequenter of #comedy shows
Drinker of #Beer that tastes like beer. I boycotted Bud Light before everyone else did, purely because sparkling water tastes better and is much cheaper.
#Linux user, almost exclusively since 2007. Currently running @EndeavourOS
Used to write long, psychedelic ambient music pieces, but haven't done any for a while. Free downloads on Bandcamp if you're curious.
| Age | Mid 40s |
| Location | UK |
| Bandcamp | simonslator.bandcamp.com |
| Pronouns | Yes, I'm very pro-Noun. Also very pro-Pronoun. It's the Adverbs I can't stand ;) |
I've had this for a few years, and the jury's still out on it. The discographies of both Huygen and Neuronium are not short of albums that easily draw you into their inner sonic sanctum, but this is something of an outlier. It's fairly short - only a fraction over half an hour - and it's quite unique in that it was on a major label (Jive Electro), not very "psychotronic" and Huygen provides semi-spoken vocals over half of it.
Currently spinning "A" by Jethro Tull. Not an LP that gets taken off the shelf regularly, especially considering the strong folk-prog trio that sits beside it, but still so much to enjoy. My copy came from a charity shop in Atherstone, and is a remaindered bargain bin copy from the US. It looks and sounds LUMPY. Don't know what they used to make it, but it certainly wasn't vinyl: bits of old Bic pens, discarded UPVC window frames...?
25 years ago, when I was getting heavily into #TangerineDream, I had copies of all the Pink Years stuff (because collector) yet very VERY rarely played them. Just didn't get on with them. Today, I play them more frequently than favourites like "Rubycon". I suppose, given how much my life has changed since, I can appreciate music that allows me to just zone out and languish in near-complete nothingness for 45 minutes.
#music #vinyl #nowplaying #krautrock #kosmische #spacerock #ambient
One down-side to making digital copies of vinyl is that the stylus can be influenced by loud noises several feet away. It doesn't affect the music, but you can hear it when the music's quiet or between tracks.
In the spectrogram below, taken when the stylus was in the run-out groove, it's possible to both see and hear my dog barking!
Not difficult to remove if you have iZotope RX though.
#nowplaying the purple #vinyl edition of "Fauna" by #Haken. The purple doesn't quite show up when you have a dark platter mat underneath.
"Elephants Never Forget" is an awesome piece: it's almost as if they shift between #Queen, #Muse and #GentleGiant at will. As for Ross Jennings: what a set of pipes!
In what universe is Helen Joyce and #SexMatters a "Human Rights" charity?! Unless you count them as a lobby group for the *abolition* of human rights which their cabal of middle-class conservatives don't like.
Typical one-sided journalism from the #Torygraph
#nowplaying the #vinyl reissue of "Coffin for Head of State" by the musically-immortal #FelaKuti
Fela in fine voice, pulling no punches as he recants his observations of government/business practices and their effects on working-class Nigerians, culminating in the story of his march on Dodan Barracks carrying a coffin representing his late mother. Powerful stuff as always - a half hour of red-hot #Afrobeat with an important lesson weaved within.
In a parallel universe somewhere, Rick Moranis was cast as the T101
"Okay eh, so you're, like, Sarah Connor? Beauty. John's here, we've got the Harley out back, and we can get you away from that liquid metal hosehead that's trying to kill you. Oh, wait, there was a line I was supposed to say... oh. yeah: "come with me if you want to live". Beauty."
